Pastel de Tres Leches

Pastel de Tres Leches or three milks cake is a personal favorite of mine, and has, surprisingly, not made to onto this blog yet. Shocker! and past time to remedy that. Tres Leches is a light sponge cake that gets soaked through with a mixture of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream. How can you go wrong? The milk moistens the sponge giving you a sweet fluffy cake that will just fly off of your fork and into your mouth. The only stumbling block to Tres Leches is that it can easily tip into the category of cloyingly sweet. I have made some adjustments to my Mom’s original recipe by trimming back the sugar and replacing the more traditional meringue topping with whipped cream… and when there is whipped cream involved who can resist a few fresh strawberries…